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nishi news

May 5th, 2007

Hello again! It's been a few months, but Nishi is back again
with three new releases.

Nth
Synthesis - Chaptire Premier. "Chaptire Premier" is a dark
electro EP from Nishi newcomers Nth Synthesis. Nth Synthesis is an
international collaboration project between musicians and video artists
Pierce Warnecke of the United States and Romain Serrate of France. Five
songs, some brand new, some revamped, all glitched out noir electro
just for you.

Siegmar
Fricke - Orthotic. Prolific German composer Siegmar Fricke
has been active in the electronic music scene since the 1980's. His
first Nishi release, "Orthotic", is a four track EP in the abstract
style he calls "Pharmakustik". Eschewing preset-sounds, melodies and
familiar song-structures, Pharmakustik instead consists of reduced and
syncopated rhythmic patterns, and clinically filtered ambiences.

Holzkopf
- Epilepsy Circle. Canadian Nishi veteran Holzkopf originally
released his double EP "Epilepsy Circle" as "Sum(n) Gun(m) Kicked Under
the Table with Epilepsy" and "A Circle is a Natural Shape" on CD in
very limited numbers from nOnCapable Recordings, and in mp3 form on
Severed Digit Recordings. The CDs were sold out long ago, and Severed
Digit no longer exists, but we've given these tracks a new home. Ten
tracks ranging from breakcore/hip-hop to ambient chimes and drones.

January 26th, 2007

Hello everyone! Well, it's 2007 and the new year brings
change. Ed Powley (aka Colophon),
who has been helping to run Nishi for the past couple of years, is
working on his PhD and has passed on the torch. My name is Christopher
Benuzzi, and Kevin
has entrusted me with the curatorship of the netlabel. Although things
have changed a little behind the scenes, Nishi will continue to operate
in the same ecclectic spirit you have come to expect since our founding
five years ago. That having been said, here are the first releases for
2007!

K.D.
Expression - For the Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams. K.D.
Expression returns to Nishi with a nine track album this time. "For the
Broken Heart from Collapsed Dreams" is a well developed and rich
mixture of epic sounds, driving beats and haunting moods. This release
aptly includes a bonus track from K.D.'s side project, "Deadline".

Samarah
- Robots Smile Too. Following up on her recent contribution
to Nishi 100, Samarah's "Robots Smile Too" features self-contained
bursts of glitch-pop and minimal techno with slinky bass lines and
catchy melodies while maintaining her trademark sultry vocals, and
textural cuts and displaced beat sensibility.

January 21st, 2007

Modul
- Globe Puzzle. An astonishing concept driven album that
traverses the spectrum of electronic music. Split into four groups of
three tracks, with each group related to a cardinal point of the
compass. These are lucid and complex compositions that travel between
electro and ambient, with glitch flourishes.

Court
of Hidden Faces - Snow. Court of Hidden Faces, who some of
you may remember from the Nishi 100 compilation, returns with a
delicate 4 track release. The only sound sources for these tracks were
an electric guitar, crackle from the amp, and a recording of rain.
Slow-paced and hypnotic.

Rich.vom.Dorf.
- Marsian Weekenders. Rich.vom.Dorf. returns to Nishi with a
five track album follow up to his 'Misinterpret Yourself' It has his
trademark rhythmic playfulness and catchy melodies, and is perhaps a
touch more upbeat and dense than his previous album.

September 19th, 2006

Ambient Field -
Sci-Fi. Patrick Wiklacz continues to indulge his (and our)
fascinations with classic science fiction and analog synthesizers, at
the intersection of the past and the future. This score for an
imaginary sci-fi movie incorporates all manner of otherworldly noises
in alien configurations, synthesized and saturated, chilling despite
their warmth.

RahMoonAhs and
N!N!N! - HippyHope. If you ever thought that electronic music
ought to have more guitar solos, you are about to be vindicated.
N!N!N!'s fretboard wizardry alternates between weaving among
RahMoonAhs' intricate digital soundscapes and soaring above them, and
the results are chaotic, eclectic and beautiful.